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It is not disingenuous. WSL is a taboo term in the Arch Linux community, for one reason or the other. If you search for it in the Wiki, you get redirected to t

It is not disingenuous. WSL is a taboo term in the Arch Linux community, for one reason or the other. If you search for it in the Wiki, you get redirected to the Code of Conduct. It is less about being irrelevant and more of a "we do not want to deal with that in any official capacity because of unspecified reasons."

chungy 6y ago
Do you have an citation for it being taboo? The whole structure of Arch, by contrast, makes having one-click installable images extraordinarily likely to be broken just for being out of date.
- 1_player 6y ago
  I do not know WHY it is taboo. I know it is because the only official resource given for the WSL term is a code of conduct document with no further explanation. Draw your own conclusion, I ain't got more than that.
- krick 6y ago
  Well, being redirected to the Code of Conduct when you search for WSL seems enough of a citation to me. Kind of surprised of such a behaviour of arch community, to be honest. Usually, it's one of the user-friendliest knowledge-bases on the Internet.
  - spijdar 6y ago
    Caveat, I don't use Arch and am not in any way connected to the community. However, since several people have mentioned it but no-one has actually linked it, this is the redirect for WSL in the arch wiki: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/service-agreements/-/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md?rdfrom=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.archlinux.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DWSL%26redirect%3Dno#arch-linux-distribution-support-only https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/service-agreements/-/... It specifically redirects to the subheader "Arch Linux distribution support ONLY". I'd draw specific attention to "Posting issues with, and requesting support for, derivative distributions or operating systems other than Arch Linux are prohibited." It sounds like they're taking a very hard stance against allowing discussion on anything but "arch linux as installed described by our documentation and using our repositories". I know Arch has a lot of spin off distros with custom repositories or configurations, and they probably get annoyed answering support questions for them. It seems like a loss to me, since these WSL images are using "native" Arch repos/userlands except for the WSL2 kernel, but I guess they'd rather play it safe than sorry.

chungy 6y ago

Do you have an citation for it being taboo? The whole structure of Arch, by contrast, makes having one-click installable images extraordinarily likely to be broken just for being out of date.

1_player 6y ago
I do not know WHY it is taboo. I know it is because the only official resource given for the WSL term is a code of conduct document with no further explanation. Draw your own conclusion, I ain't got more than that.
krick 6y ago
Well, being redirected to the Code of Conduct when you search for WSL seems enough of a citation to me. Kind of surprised of such a behaviour of arch community, to be honest. Usually, it's one of the user-friendliest knowledge-bases on the Internet.
- spijdar 6y ago
  Caveat, I don't use Arch and am not in any way connected to the community. However, since several people have mentioned it but no-one has actually linked it, this is the redirect for WSL in the arch wiki: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/service-agreements/-/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md?rdfrom=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.archlinux.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DWSL%26redirect%3Dno#arch-linux-distribution-support-only https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/service-agreements/-/... It specifically redirects to the subheader "Arch Linux distribution support ONLY". I'd draw specific attention to "Posting issues with, and requesting support for, derivative distributions or operating systems other than Arch Linux are prohibited." It sounds like they're taking a very hard stance against allowing discussion on anything but "arch linux as installed described by our documentation and using our repositories". I know Arch has a lot of spin off distros with custom repositories or configurations, and they probably get annoyed answering support questions for them. It seems like a loss to me, since these WSL images are using "native" Arch repos/userlands except for the WSL2 kernel, but I guess they'd rather play it safe than sorry.